[PATCH] versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes

["Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
---
 Second round. Looking better. We can do
 "1.0-pre12 < 1.0-rc0 < 1.0 < 1.0-post1" too but it relies on
 config key's loading order, a bit iffy.

 Documentation/config.txt |  7 +++++++
 t/t7004-tag.sh           | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 versioncmp.c             | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index 04e2a71..8e078df 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2539,6 +2539,13 @@ user.signingkey::
 	This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
 	so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
 
+versionsort.prereleaseSuffix::
+	When version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], prerelease
+	tags (e.g. "1.0-rc1") may appear after the main release
+	"1.0". By specifying the suffix "-rc" in this variable,
+	"1.0-rc1" will appear before "1.0". One variable assignment
+	per suffix.
+
 web.browser::
 	Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
 	Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]
diff --git a/t/t7004-tag.sh b/t/t7004-tag.sh
index 35c805a..8bfeef9 100755
--- a/t/t7004-tag.sh
+++ b/t/t7004-tag.sh
@@ -1459,6 +1459,34 @@ test_expect_success 'invalid sort parameter in configuratoin' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'version sort with prerelease reordering' '
+	git config --unset tag.sort &&
+	git config versionsort.prereleaseSuffix -rc &&
+	git tag foo1.6-rc1 &&
+	git tag foo1.6-rc2 &&
+	git tag -l --sort=version:refname "foo*" >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	foo1.3
+	foo1.6-rc1
+	foo1.6-rc2
+	foo1.6
+	foo1.10
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'reverse version sort with prerelease reordering' '
+	git tag -l --sort=-version:refname "foo*" >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	foo1.10
+	foo1.6
+	foo1.6-rc2
+	foo1.6-rc1
+	foo1.3
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 run_with_limited_stack () {
 	(ulimit -s 128 && "$@")
 }
diff --git a/versioncmp.c b/versioncmp.c
index 7511e08..80bfd10 100644
--- a/versioncmp.c
+++ b/versioncmp.c
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #include "cache.h"
+#include "string-list.h"
 
 /*
  * versioncmp(): copied from string/strverscmp.c in glibc commit
@@ -20,6 +21,48 @@
 #define  CMP    2
 #define  LEN    3
 
+static const struct string_list *prereleases;
+static int initialized;
+
+/*
+ * p1 and p2 point to the first different character in two strings. If
+ * either p1 or p2 starts with a prerelease suffix, it will be forced
+ * to be on top.
+ *
+ * If both p1 and p2 start with (different) suffix, the order is
+ * determined by config file.
+ *
+ * Note that we don't have to deal with the situation when both p1 and
+ * p2 start with the same suffix because the common part is already
+ * consumed by the caller.
+ *
+ * Return non-zero if *diff contains the return value for versioncmp()
+ */
+static int swap_prereleases(const void *p1_,
+			    const void *p2_,
+			    int *diff)
+{
+	const char *p1 = p1_;
+	const char *p2 = p2_;
+	int i, i1 = -1, i2 = -1;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < prereleases->nr; i++) {
+		const char *suffix = prereleases->items[i].string;
+		if (i1 == -1 && starts_with(p1, suffix))
+			i1 = i;
+		if (i2 == -1 && starts_with(p2, suffix))
+			i2 = i;
+	}
+	if (i1 == -1 && i2 == -1)
+		return 0;
+	if (i1 >= 0 && i2 >= 0)
+		*diff = i1 - i2;
+	else if (i1 >= 0)
+		*diff = -1;
+	else /* if (i2 >= 0) */
+		*diff = 1;
+	return 1;
+}
 
 /*
  * Compare S1 and S2 as strings holding indices/version numbers,
@@ -74,6 +117,13 @@ int versioncmp(const char *s1, const char *s2)
 		state += (c1 == '0') + (isdigit (c1) != 0);
 	}
 
+	if (!initialized) {
+		initialized = 1;
+		prereleases = git_config_get_value_multi("versionsort.prereleasesuffix");
+	}
+	if (prereleases && swap_prereleases(p1 - 1, p2 - 1, &diff))
+		return diff;
+
 	state = result_type[state * 3 + (((c2 == '0') + (isdigit (c2) != 0)))];
 
 	switch (state) {
-- 
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